James Edmunds
James Edmunds is the Dean of the London Geller College of Hospitality and Tourism.
James has over two decades’ experience of teaching and managing tourism, hospitality and aviation courses within higher education. Most recently, he has been involved in managing commercial pilot degree teaching contracts, which has involved working with the world’s two largest flight training providers as well as a number of high profile international airlines.
James has published two academic books and has undertaken a range of consultancy for organisations ranging from Scandinavian Airlines through to Visit Britain and the London Borough of Ealing.
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Qualifications
BSc Combined Honours Transport with Geography, MSc Tourism Management, C&G 730 Teacher Training in Further & Higher Education
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Research and publications
Books
Edmunds, J. (2015) Introduction to Airline & Airport Management, 5th Edition, Harlow, Pearson Custom Publishing.
Edmunds, J. (2008) Entry for Aviation appearing in Philander, George S. Encyclopaedia of Global Warming & Climate Change, Sage Publishing.
Edmunds, J. (2011) Introduction to Airline & Airport Management (3e), Pearson Custom Publishing.
Lomine, L. & Edmunds, J. (2007) Key Concepts in Tourism, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
Edmunds, J. (2012) Challenges facing regional airport operations in Great Britain - a Case Study Perspective of the South West of England & Wales, University of West London Vistas.
The Impact of Full Service Network Carrier consolidation on airports located within South West England and Wales, UWL PhD Research Conference Poster (winning entry) 2011.
Edmunds, J. (2007) The Difficult Linkage of Theory to Practice - Case Study of Ryanair Work Placement Period, TVU Teaching Conference, June 2007.
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Conferences
Edmunds, J. (2016) The cold reality of end-to-end connectivity: A must have or just additional cost? Hamburg Aviation Conference.
Edmunds, J. (2015) Know me - the secret to customer loyalty within the airport environment, Hamburg Aviation Conference.
Edmunds, J. (2014) Opportunities and Developments of Omni-Channel and Mobile Distribution for Commercial Aviation, Keynote speech, Hamburg Aviation Conference